TELL ME A STORY explores the story-shaped nature of our lives. Each of us is the product of all the stories we have ever heard-and of many of which...
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May 05, 2009
Tonya
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It became apparent to me in reading this book that without an understanding of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, it is impossible to bring all of our beliefs and experiences into harmony. Some of the author's own disjunction is evidenced in the book. However, he gives some valuable insights into the great power that can be found in the stories that we instill in ourselves and our children. He also points our the importance of knowing that our lives have purpose. If we can find a plot in our liv
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Dec 28, 2009
Barb
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I will let the author speak for me:
"Stories tell me not only who I am but also who you are, and what we are together. In fact, without you and your story I cannot know myself and my story. no one's story exists alone. Each is tangled up in countless others. Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millennia away."
"It is crucial . . . that we surround children, and ourselves, with healthy stories. These stories should be filled with More...
"Stories tell me not only who I am but also who you are, and what we are together. In fact, without you and your story I cannot know myself and my story. no one's story exists alone. Each is tangled up in countless others. Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millennia away."
"It is crucial . . . that we surround children, and ourselves, with healthy stories. These stories should be filled with More...
Aug 05, 2011
Bridgett
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This book explains the way stories are lived out by us and how we act as characters, how our stories interact, and how they change over time and can be broken and repaired. I would have liked more examples of stories and their interaction. The book stays rather abstract.
Apr 22, 2008
Carol
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An excellent readable account of what is at stake with narrative theology and why literature is so important and how we need story to make sense of the larger sweep of our lives.
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